I am also of the opinion that it's a waste of effort and resources to try and help out people who wouldn't help themselves. Yet help in the form of software and equipment instead of food and medicine is a step in the right direction.
Well, to put it bluntly there's much more to the loss of a sub than the cost in human life only. 2000 dead grunts won't have much of an impact on the war effort, whereas the loss of 20 subs would. Therefore high tech threats capable of sinking a sub should and are given a priority.
Well, it'a all about helping the rest of the species, but opinions as to what exactly that constitutes vary. There are those that say that bringing "democracy" to some 3rd world hellhole qualifies as "helping". There are still others that think bringing islam to the whole world would be the best thing that ever happened to humanity. I say we're already too sucessful as a species in terms of numbers, so we need to kinda thin out our numbers, therefore wars are good!
it doesn't have to be added by Opera Software in Opera the browser, too. There's a file called "search.ini" in the.opera directory in your $HOME, that's where all those shortcuts are kept. Adding something like m-w or freshmeat to those is trivial.
-- "It seems possible to me that simpler organisms may be able to cross-breed easier."
Nope. It doesn't work that way. The (in)ability to cross breed has no relation to the complexity of the organism.
-- "Perhaps at an early stage of evolution a simple bug which happened to hibernate in a cocoon bred with a simple bug that had wings."
Butterflies as we know them today are part of a group of insects called "Holometabola", which means they undergo full metamorphosis, which is different from hybernation. The hypothetic ancestors of butterflies were therefore already winged.
-- "It seems impossible that one single organism could spontaneously develop a cocooning stage and wings at the same through a mutation. I don't see how that organism, over the course of it's very short lifespan could adapt to such a radical change, survive and then procreate successfully."
The odds are indeed infinitessimal, but noone is talking about a single organism. The basic unit is always a population. Besides, it doesn't have to be at the same time. For a mutation to establish itself it has to occur in more than one individual in a population, and confer some immediate benefit. Later on as mutations pile up, complex organs may evolve which have little to do with the original purpose of that one first mutation.
I think you mean "raygun" rather than "railgun". A raygun emits electromagnetic waves, whereas a railgun uses magnets to accelerate a projectile. On a sidenote a railgun wouldn't probably leave any traces too, except for some pink mist.
that bezos dude is going to patent "Insertion of small and medim sized irregularly shaped objects via the rectum for the purpose of stimulation of the colon thereby deriving intense pleasure". I don't think anyone will be able to prove prior art either
communism was dead wrong in that it concentrated all power into the hands of very few. I think the answer is to first distribute that power (and the responsibility it implies) to the people. That way even if someone becomes excessively "Human" and "Natural" he won't be able to do much harm. Kind of a distributed society =)
Even if life, intelligence and civilization are a common occurrence, which I very much doubt, the distances involved will make any communication, let alone contact impractical. Chances of that happening in my lifetime tend to 0.
God damned religious fanatics and terrarists! Always mixing up their idealistic bulshit with good, honest to God crime. Whatever happened to counterfeiting for, you know, profit?
P.S. On a side note, I was robbed last night. The thieves stole my intellectual propery and threatened my imaginary friend with a gun.
I'm surprized everyone so far has been talking about stuff like religion, sexual perversions, being uncomfortable et cetera, without mentioning that it's utter humiliation. I mean look at it this way: the govt. clerk whether he's of the same sex, a pervert or not, is given the right to say jump, and you can't even ask how high. I swear if they ever implement that shit, every time they scan me, I'm gonna whip out my wang and slap it a couple of times against the sensors
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Helo Fitten
Reality just called. It said if you would just cut down on the crack and look around, you might notice that BASIC is not all that popular with the unschooled OSS pariah. It's rather the domain of msces and wannabees. Besides, if you want cost effective you can always become a laywer or something.
hmm, I don't have that many contacts to manage I guess, but the primary use of my T3 is as a lightweight laptop replacement. I got a scheme interpreter (lispme), a C compiler and tools, an ssh client and some misc tools that I wrote myself. The sweetest part of the deal is, you can take it out on a field trip, or to places where lugging a laptop would be inconvenient
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Heh, thanks, but I think I'll try my luck with scientology. They seem like a decent bunch in comparison.
I am also of the opinion that it's a waste of effort and resources to try and help out people who wouldn't help themselves. Yet help in the form of software and equipment instead of food and medicine is a step in the right direction.
Well, to put it bluntly there's much more to the loss of a sub than the cost in human life only. 2000 dead grunts won't have much of an impact on the war effort, whereas the loss of 20 subs would. Therefore high tech threats capable of sinking a sub should and are given a priority.
Well, it'a all about helping the rest of the species, but opinions as to what exactly that constitutes vary. There are those that say that bringing "democracy" to some 3rd world hellhole qualifies as "helping". There are still others that think bringing islam to the whole world would be the best thing that ever happened to humanity. I say we're already too sucessful as a species in terms of numbers, so we need to kinda thin out our numbers, therefore wars are good!
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Pirate? As in "kidnap them and start sending little pieces of the CD and the box to Microsoft together with your demands for ransom?
A step back? Hell that's one HUGE leap backwards
it doesn't have to be added by Opera Software in Opera the browser, too. There's a file called "search.ini" in the .opera directory in your $HOME, that's where all those shortcuts are kept.
Adding something like m-w or freshmeat to those is trivial.
not to mentions the flat chest
-- "It seems possible to me that simpler organisms may be able to cross-breed easier."
Nope. It doesn't work that way. The (in)ability to cross breed has no relation to the complexity of the organism.
-- "Perhaps at an early stage of evolution a simple bug which happened to hibernate in a cocoon bred with a simple bug that had wings."
Butterflies as we know them today are part of a group of insects called "Holometabola", which means they undergo full metamorphosis, which is different from hybernation. The hypothetic ancestors of butterflies were therefore already winged.
-- "It seems impossible that one single organism could spontaneously develop a cocooning stage and wings at the same through a mutation. I don't see how that organism, over the course of it's very short lifespan could adapt to such a radical change, survive and then procreate successfully."
The odds are indeed infinitessimal, but noone is talking about a single organism. The basic unit is always a population. Besides, it doesn't have to be at the same time. For a mutation to establish itself it has to occur in more than one individual in a population, and confer some immediate benefit. Later on as mutations pile up, complex organs may evolve which have little to do with the original purpose of that one first mutation.
I think you mean "raygun" rather than "railgun". A raygun emits electromagnetic waves, whereas a railgun uses magnets to accelerate a projectile. On a sidenote a railgun wouldn't probably leave any traces too, except for some pink mist.
that bezos dude is going to patent "Insertion of small and medim sized irregularly shaped objects via the rectum for the purpose of stimulation of the colon thereby deriving intense pleasure". I don't think anyone will be able to prove prior art either
communism was dead wrong in that it concentrated all power into the hands of very few. I think the answer is to first distribute that power (and the responsibility it implies) to the people. That way even if someone becomes excessively "Human" and "Natural" he won't be able to do much harm. Kind of a distributed society =)
An optimization of your method: ...
Call your dog "Mount Fuji"
yup, society prefers sheeple, that's why there's so many of them.
Ahem, the apple ][ used its BASIC interpreter as a an interactive shell. Most interpreters have no problem being used interactively.
Did you have that anal probe surgically removed, or did it come out naturally?
This is slander!
I am a christian and I got no body piercing whatsoever!
And my tatoos depict scenes from the bible.
Even if life, intelligence and civilization are a common occurrence, which I very much doubt, the distances involved will make any communication, let alone contact impractical. Chances of that happening in my lifetime tend to 0.
God damned religious fanatics and terrarists! Always mixing up their idealistic bulshit with good, honest to God crime. Whatever happened to counterfeiting for, you know, profit?
P.S.
On a side note, I was robbed last night. The thieves stole my intellectual propery and threatened my imaginary friend with a gun.
err, excuse me, since when do modems have "drivers"?
Your point was quite obvious, however I found your choice of a metaphor annoyingly incorrect.
I'm surprized everyone so far has been talking about stuff like religion, sexual perversions, being uncomfortable et cetera, without mentioning that it's utter humiliation. I mean look at it this way: the govt. clerk whether he's of the same sex, a pervert or not, is given the right to say jump, and you can't even ask how high.
I swear if they ever implement that shit, every time they scan me, I'm gonna whip out my wang and slap it a couple of times against the sensors
Helo Fitten
Reality just called.
It said if you would just cut down on the crack
and look around, you might notice that BASIC
is not all that popular with the unschooled
OSS pariah. It's rather the domain of msces and
wannabees.
Besides, if you want cost effective you can always
become a laywer or something.
hmm, I don't have that many contacts to manage I guess, but the primary use of my T3 is as a lightweight laptop replacement. I got a scheme interpreter (lispme), a C compiler and tools, an ssh client and some misc tools that I wrote myself.
The sweetest part of the deal is, you can take it out on a field trip, or to places where lugging a laptop would be inconvenient